I know who killed me
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | I know who killed me |
| Original title | I know who killed me |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | approx. 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Chris Sivertson |
| script | Jeff Hammond |
| production |
Frank Mancuso Jr. Aaron Mazzolini David Grace |
| music | Joel McNeely |
| camera | John R. Leonetti |
| cut | Lawrence Jordan |
| occupation | |
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I know who killed me has (Original title: I Know Who Killed Me ) is an American horror fantasy thriller by Chris Sivertson from the year 2007 .
action
A talented piano player, Aubrey Fleming, who lives in a small town, is kidnapped and tortured by a serial killer one day . She is later found badly mutilated on the side of the road. In the hospital, however, she denies being Aubrey Fleming, pretending to be a stripper Dakota Moss. Parents and doctors think it is a matter of memory loss and an identity that arises from their imagination.
Dakota Moss goes on a search for her true identity and discovers that the kidnapped Aubrey Fleming is her identical twin sister . The drug addict Virginia Sue Moss is the birth mother of the two twins she gave birth to at the same time as Susan Fleming her child. After Susan's child died in an incubator shortly after birth, the father, Daniel Fleming, bought one of the twins from the twin mother without telling his wife Susan.
Dakota discovers that any injuries inflicted on her abducted twin sister, Aubrey, are also transmitted to her body. This explains the sudden dropping of a finger, a foresight in the opening scene, like the flashbacks in which further injuries occur to her without any external influence, until she is finally found at the roadside with no hand or foot.
Dakota goes in search of Aubrey and receives clues through visions. Finally, she looks at the grave of Jennifer Toland, a former friend of Aubrey, who was also murdered. Here she finds a rosette from a piano competition from 2001. This immediately connects her to Aubrey's and Jennifer's former piano teacher. Both broke off their lessons shortly before their kidnapping, so the piano teacher Douglas Norquist, known to the audience from one of the opening scenes, turns out to be the torturer and murderer.
Dakota and Daniel Fleming are now on their way to free Aubrey from the captivity of the murderer and at the same time to save Dakota's life. The murderer kills Daniel. Ultimately, Dakota can kill the murderer Douglas Norquist. Now it turns out that this one had already buried Aubrey alive. In the final scene, Dakota frees her sister who is still alive from the grave.
background
The film was shot in Los Angeles , San Luis Obispo and other locations in California . Filming began in December 2006 and ended in March 2007. Its production amounted to an estimated 12 million US dollars . The film started in cinemas in the USA on July 27, 2007 and played there around 3.5 million on the opening weekend, over 7.2 million in the USA by August 19, 2007 and a little more than 9.6 million US dollars worldwide a. The film was released in German cinemas on January 3, 2008. The film was released on DVD in the US on November 27, 2007 and grossed over $ 11 million.
Two recurring motifs in the film are the colors blue and red , which are constantly found in objects, clothing or the lighting of certain scenes. The color blue (symbolizing the color of the first prize) stands for Aubrey - for example, the flowers that her boyfriend brings for her are bright blue, the photo of her beach trip has a blue frame and shows her in a blue swimsuit - red ( Symbol for the color of the second prize) stands for Dakota, who therefore only wears red clothes.
Since Lindsay Lohan was imprisoned in the USA in 2007 for driving while under the influence of psychoactive substances , she was unable to take part in marketing measures to promote the film.
criticism
Stephen Hunter wrote in the Washington Post on July 28, 2007 that the film was of what was referred to as a " B-movie " in the "old good days" . It is "endlessly bloody", which would put off sensitive audiences and attract insensitive audiences.
Michael Rechtsshaffen wrote in The Hollywood Reporter on July 30, 2007 that the film was a candidate for the title of worst film of 2007. It was a thriller without a thrill, had a pointless plot and contained "mechanical" representations.
Arabella Akossy from kino.de judged the film to be an “absurd psychological thriller with a torture-porn touch”, with which Lindsay Lohan “does nothing good for her troubled career”. Your presentation is "only partially convincing". Towards the end of the film "the story written by the novice Jeff Hammond drifts off into completely ridiculous realms" and "the combination of eroticism and disgust overflows with involuntarily funny scenes".
Jürgen Armbruster von Filmstarts sums up that with the “unspeakably bad erotic-mystery-torture-thriller” Lohan succeeded in taking the “artistic oath of disclosure”. “Technically” the film is “a single impertinence” and Armbruster finds no positive words either for the script by debutant Jeff Hammond or for the resolution of the film.
The lexicon of international film films wrote that the film was a "[h] outrageously constructed, dramatically and technically below-average psychological thriller with sensational disgusting scenes."
Awards
The film received eight Golden Raspberries in 2008 , including three for Lindsay Lohan : she received two awards for worst actress (she played a twin), and she also formed the worst screen couple with herself . Furthermore, the film was awarded for: Schlechinger tester film , worst excuse for a horror movie , Worst Remake , Worst Screenplay and for Worst Director . Julia Ormond was nominated for another Golden Raspberry in the Worst Supporting Actress category. After Battlefield Earth , this film has won the second most golden raspberries in the history of the award, with the latter only retaining the leading position because it received a special award for worst drama as well as in 2005 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the raids 2010 received the award for the worst film of the decade . I Know Who Killed Me Was Nominated For Worst Film Of The Decade In 2010 . Lindsay Lohan was nominated for her work in this film in 2010 as the worst actress of the decade. Adam Sandler's comedy Jack and Jill is now the sole record holder with twelve negative awards.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations , accessed August 6, 2007
- ↑ a b c d Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results , accessed October 22, 2007
- ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Launch Dates , accessed October 22, 2007
- ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Background information
- ↑ Review by Stephen Hunter, accessed August 6, 2007
- ^ Critique by Michael Rechtshaffen, accessed on August 6, 2007 ( Memento from August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ movie review , kino.de, Arabella Akossy
- ^ Film review , film starts , Jürgen Armbruster
- ↑ I know who killed me. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Nominations and Awards
- ↑ Official homepage of the Razzies 2008 ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- I know who killed me was in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- I know who killed me was at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- I know who killed me has at Metacritic (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions Pro 7 from 16 - No youth approval from I know who killed me at Schnittberichte.com
- I know who killed me in the German dubbing files